Fyberspates Roadshow in Scotland and some product development

So for now, this is the plan for the weekend. I am in K1's shop in Glasgow on Saturday, and then in Edinburgh on Sunday! Click on the site for details. I have lots of yummy yarns, come and say hello!!!!

Yesterday was product development day. Today, is trying my hardest
not to spill the beans to you lot about it because its to exciting. THE
product has been dyed, and balled, and I will take  it with me to K1 on
the weekend, you can't buy it yet, but you should be able to at
Woolfest, fingers crossed. I will sell ALOT of this, I promise you, and
you will LOVE IT.

Its not a new yarn either, oooohhhhh, now thats got ya.

Infact I will do a competition with it as soon as I am allowed to talk about it.

Bye cherubs, have  a lovely weekend.
x

by the way

When I was in Norway, we went to this lovely place and had cake and coffee, they had quite a few outdoor art instillations which were amazing, but this was the best, it was a huge kaleidoscope, which you could look into, this photo was taken on my phone, its Kari and Per at the end, lol

I love it, its like something out of Doctor WHO

The curse of the rainy thursday

As you know, the last few weeks, every thursday THE DAY BEFORE UPDATE DAY it has rained, which means chaos because the yarn gets completely soaked. Not that it does any harm, its just un-update-able, Yep folks that IS a real word.

   

Yesterday was an extremely productive day, I dyed, packed, and organised, I was well chuffed, so last night I chanted, mainly to stop my head from exploding with excitement, and I threw a few D's in for a lovely sunny day today  so that I can take a gorgeous hoard of DRY wool to K1 at the weekend. I woke up and its lovely and dry, chilly, but perfect drying day, not saying that it was my  chanting or nothin, but I seem to be in rhythm with the universe this past week or so, since I let go of a few rocks I was carrying, so I think I broke the curse, yippeee, lol.

Oh and decided not to go to the USA next week. I have a limit, and thats way over it. We have postponed it to early July instead, after Woolfest :-) That way we can take a more leisurely trip and enjoy ourselves, and it gives me time to prepare properly, and get on with the projects that need immediate attention.

So, I sort of hope there is some yarn left from K1, because I have done some really nice colours, which would be fab for the shop. I was trying to work through the rainbow, and am about 1/4 of the way through, lol.

Oh and I decided to start exercising today, I was going to go weight training, but think I will start running first. I love weight training, but I haven't done any for 5 years, so I need to ease myself in, lol.

Right

Gotta go, my smelly trainers are calling

Happy knitting folks.

xxx

Allsorts

OK, all socks clubs have been posted, yippppppeee. Thats always a relief, lol.

Update is rather somewhat slow today as a result, so instead of stressing I will just continue to update the shop over the next day or so, there are some nice hand dyes to go on there in addition to the extra sale yarns I need to put on. I have lots of yarn to dye for my visit to K1 at the weekend tomorrow, I am sooooo excited about this trip, its going to be lots of fun meeting lots of you lot, and Katherine and I have exciting future projects to discuss.

Are there any requests for yarns or colours you would particularly like me to bring? Leave me a comment or email if you do, because I am dyeing tomorrow, so its no problemo.

I am waiting to hear if I have funding to go to the USA next week, yep, NEXT WEEK, I can't book anything until they give me the go ahead, which is cutting it a little bit fine, as much as I am looking forward to it, I am pretty glad this is the end of my traveling for a little while, I am absolutely desperate to get into a routine with fyberspates and get working on fs trading straight away. Although all the trips contribute to both businesses considerably, I am just so excited to get started with everything properly.

Feeling mightily excited this evening, the house is all spick and span, things feel like they are moving in a really great direction, and I am going to have a beer, cook some food and get on with some knitting, I have a design I need to get finished by the weekend.

Happy knitting folks :-)

Champagne everyone?

So, I just got back from Norway. Yep, it was completely and totally amazing. Firstly it tops all the countries I have been to, because it clean, beautiful, and you feel like it is impossible to get ill there, and the houses are amazing, oh and the fact that sledging and skiing are kind of compulsory in the winter, how cool is that?

OK, look the houses are exactly as you would imagine them!!

I had a super two days, I feel very refreshed, and excited. It was a business trip, but it felt like I was visiting old friends, we ate extremely delicious food, (smoked elk heart and elk burgers top my favorites) and we laughed allot!!  We even watched the Eurovision song contest, and in the end, we were voting for Norway because it was doing alot better than the UK, I want to go back very soon!!!

Kari and Perr, have a beautiful dog, who is just lovely:

we can't remember his name in Norweigen, name but it means bear, he is so gorgeous.

So the point of going? Well, it was to discuss distributing Du Store Alpakka yarns in the UK. And guess what? I am!!! Yippeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!! There are many reasons why I am so excited to distribute this yarn, including the social conscience of Du Store Alpakka, the high quality of the yarns, and the gorgeous range of colours and last but not least the pattern support is phenomenal, really phenomenal, (Kari is a very talented designer) I am in charge of getting things translated ASAP, so I will show you the patterns we are translating really soon, I know you will love them.

Here is a little pic taken of their shop to give you an idea of the
gorgeous colour palettes, they just make you want to knit, they really do!

The other wonderful thing about this brand, is that its complimented by
beautiful pins and buttons that are made especially to compliment the
colours of the yarns. You will see soon what I mean, and also there is
a story to go with the buttons as well as the yarns, and you know how I
love a story :-)  I will tell you all about it in the next few weeks, because it will be a good way for me to get it all down and organised in my head.

Fyberspates will continue as normal, but in a slightly different way. I feel as though the distribution will teach me alot, and that it will enable me to develop the company having good grounding. The distribution will be operating under a new company, called FS trading. (Thats the first time I have written it and am mightily proud, hehe.)

SO as a result of all of this excitement  I have been completing my finishing touches to my organization at Fyberspates HQ and this organisation has meant lots of things being unearthed that need to be sold, and you know what that means folks?  A flippin sale! Yep. A sale, there will be a small amount of hand dyed, but there will be mainly the alpaca I got from Peru, and some lovely solid sock yarns (£1.50 for 50gms) which are perfect for fairailse socks, and can be combined with hand dyed too for interesting effects. So it will all be update tomorrow starting in the morning, so keep an eye out!

Right I am off to drink wine, and celebrate my new business and my organised and tidy life :-)

Clubs and updates

Ok, all sock clubs will go Monday, although I dyed them in time, rain seems like a tradition here on Thursdays now, they are worth waiting for though, lovely bright summery colours, inspired by those ranges of plastic picnic wear you find in B&Q and various supermarkets, lol!!

Shop will also be updated on Monday seeing as its too wet too.

Never mind, there are lots of goodies to wait for, I just hope the weather is sunny on Monday.

hope you have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine. I am not sure what the weather is like in Norway.

Oh here is my panta headband, I look too rough today for a closeup, I need some serious sleep and sunshine and fruit:

xx

STASH, WOOL AND NORWAY

ok, its slightly crazy here, no change there then!!

Stash was really fun, I was a bit knackered and tired, so I wasn't as chatty as I normally am, but it was lovely, and I hope the yarns do really well there. I knitted a panta head band on the train down in cherry scrumptious chunky, just waiting for the camera to be charged up and then I will pop a pic of it. Pattern is free on ravelry, its super and quick, perfect if you like wearing headbands.

So dyeing all my yarn today, I have so many custom orders I have to get finished and also the clubs, eek, so sorry if I am slow replying to emails, I need to get these things out the way before I do anything else. There will be a nice update on Friday, despite the fact that I am flying to Norway, lol!! I am very very excited about this, I am going to meet Kari and Per of Du store Alpakka, Yippee!! I now have a permanently packed case, I have never ever done so much traveling in my life, thank goodness I have Carmella to look after the little monkey cat.

So pics later of the panta headband,

xxxx